@larsman +1 Spot on, I'm Welsh and Maximum Darkness is one of my favourite albums. If you're into Man check out Live at the Padget Rooms Penarth.
Love QSM I'm waiting for their new 7 disc remastered box set which is due to be released on July 10th.
Dead. Where Is Thy Sting?
Why did the Grateful Dead playing live sound so terrible at times and at other times so spectacular according to audience recollections? Was it the amplification set-up? Quality of drugs available? Whether the band was rested? The crowd vibe? The venue vibe? Did the Dead themselves have a handle on this?
I am not a true DeadHead though I treasure the Garcia/Grisman recordings. Lots of my friends are Heads.Their stories of following the Dead around are full of legend and calamity. They wouldn't have had it any other way. "Off" performances were just Part of Life. That's what they were looking for and preferred that it be unpredictable just like life.
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@lordmelton - You're Welsh? I'd have had no idea; that's great! I like all that incestuous Welsh psychedelic scene with Help Yourself, the Neutrons, Deke, Malcolm, Ken, etc, as well as "newer" bands like the Manics. I've had that double 10 inch Live at the Padget Rooms Penarth for decades; it was a really hard-to-find import for a long time. Also a big fan of some Welsh writers like Niall Griffiths (and Deke Leonard himself!). And we used to have a Welsh pub in San Francisco called Dylan's with a landlord called Titch and Brains on draft! I first saw Man when they opened for Hawkwind on the '1999 Tour' in 1974. Then a local DJ named Ron Sanchez became a super fan of their's and they'd play Man all the time on a radio station in San Jose, KOME, which is why San Francisco became one of two places in the US to really take them into our hearts, the other being Chicago, and they played here a number of times as support and as headliners through the '74 - '76 era, including a couple with Cippo. I've got some great photos of them from a couple of shows here. And Ron Sanchez ended up as producer of 'Call Down the Moon'... In the immortal words of the lads, "I like to eat bananas, because they got no bones... I like marijuana, because it gets me stoned." |
Happy Trails got a lot of play time at my house, at one point-Bo Diddley beat on LSD. Thought they were better without Chet Powers aka Dino Valenti. He is the writer of "Get Together" that the Youngbloods turned into a big hit. Needing money for a lawyer, after another drug bust, he sold the rights to the song and never saw a dime of royalties. |
@larsman Thats awesome that you know so much about Man, they've had more line-ups than I don't even know. Terry Williams the drummer went to play with Dire Straits. Deke, Cippo and Mickey Jones are no longer with us but Martin Ace is still plugging away, playing in Putney, West London next month. That's were Marc Bolan/T.Rex crashed his car into a tree killing himself and his girlfriend. Budgie another Welsh band, quite heavy and also the fabulous Badfinger. |
@wharfy Same thing happened to Badfinger they sold I can't live, if living is without you. |
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